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Crossfire + list of games Q's.

craptakular

craptakular

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Hiya,

thinking of buying a second 5770 on Thursday but wonder if it's worth it. Can anyone comment of there a issues with these games and Xfire:

1) CSS
2) TF2
3) BF2
4) BF 2142
5) CoD 4
6) Fallout 3
7) Borderlands
8) Bioshock
9) Oblivion
10) Live for Speed
11) L4D2
12) Dirt 2 (when released)
13) Dead space

Im on win7 64 bit, I am asking because over the years a lot of people have had issues with Xfire/SLi, but have these been ironed out yet? Most of the games on the list are old anyway.
 
Yes for all, my 4850 can run every single one of those, completely maxed out (including DIRT 2, played the demo) at 1680x1050 with 60+FPS. If my 4850 can do that your 5770 will do even better. Some of the games there can even run at 100+ FPS on my 4850.
As for Xfire, most games support it these days. You will be fine 100% with just one card though.

EDIT: Sorry, i thought you was asking for advice on buying a 5770, not Xfire scaling. My bad. I'm really not sure, most should be fine. Not sure about the old games but i'm pretty sure they all scale well. It's not like you need Xfire anyway if thats all you play.
 
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What res are you playing at?

xFire for those games is probably overkill as one 5770 would breeze through them - but what the hell, we are enthusiasts ;)
 
Well, Dirt 2 had an ATi fix released the other day to make it use both GFX Cards in crossfire :)

Battlefield 2 also works fine for me, using the MSi Afterburner sensor feed to my G15 Keyboards screen it uses both cards equaly in terms of usage!
 
At 1680 x 1050 all those games and current games (!crysis) will be silky smooth.
At 1920 x 1080 all those games will be silky smooth but some new games may not be smooth when maxed.

Dirt 2 is the only game on your list that may benefit (noticeably, not just FPS) from a second 5770.
 
If your playing at 1680x then a single 5770 would be fine - if your playing at 1920x I'd say chuck in a second one as performance will be starting to drop off in intensive scenes.
 
I would like to use my 24" monitor again! Those 2 inches make all the difference! :p

I think I'll see how fallout 3 and oblivion run on my 24" before buying a new card, might be pointless as you all say.
 
Crossfire for the most part works very well, if the game is very new and for some reason AMD havn't released a driver set which contains a crossfire profile for it you may get slow FPS.

As long as you keep your drivers up to date crossfire is actually really well refined now a days, I can personally speak for about 1/2 of those games working fine. Scaling can be anywhere between almost 100% (CoD 4 is really good) down to about 70% scaling on some engines. Just part of crossfire though.
 
Those games should be fine, and as said above, Dirt2 has just had a hotfix driver thats sorted Xfire for it, so runs fine now on 2x.

Xfire/SLi is a lot better these days, so id say its well worth chucking another 5770 in there, especially when you consider the prices of them, fantastic value, 2x are the same price as the 5850, but are faster than it, they equal and beat (in some cases) the 5870's.
 
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LoadsaMoney said:
Those games should be fine, and as said above, Dirt2 has just had a hotfix driver thats sorted Xfire for it, so runs fine now on 2x.

Xfire/SLi is a lot better these days, so id say its well worth chucking another 5770 in there, especially when you consider the prices of them, fantastic value, 2x are the same price as the 5850, but are faster than it, they equal and beat (in some cases) the 5870's.
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My card I have now seems to overclock nicely to 1000/1300 on 1.25v :)

So if I can overclock them both like that then I should be laughing!

You think it would be wise to wait unti march and get one for peanuts when bf:bc2 comes out?

Or say ballons to it and buy one in the next fortnight?
 
crossfire on counter strike source has side effect when flashbang fades away its starts to flicker maybe it is fixed now im not sure
 
Most source games still have issues with multi GPU and flashbang and other similiar screen type effects - both SLI and crossfire.
 
All things considered a sub £300 5870 is probably the sweet spot, I couldn't be doing with the hassle of Dual GPU's. Now if only i could find a sub £300 5870!
 
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